It's been a sunny day in Victoria. Really sunny. It will continue like that for the week. Mid thirties for five days straight forecast and it's not even summer. There will be small fun waves and most of us will be stuck in hot offices. Yesterday...

The first Tuesday in November, in Victoria, is a public holiday. For a horse race. The Melbourne Cup. All of Australia stops to watch the $5,000,000 race, it seems, and it is a very good way to do your money. Every year we have a bet, though this...

After the fun of last Monday with Richard Tognetti, I repeated the exercise on Wednesday, again with Richard as he had the rare pleasure of time off in his all too familiar stupid schedule. The waves were the same as pictured below, only better. Three...

Every so often a weekend comes along that is just, well, different. Saturday morning, with a friends wedding imminent in the afternoon, I headed off to get some exercise, the non surfing exercise in my life being a visit to the gym where I flog my...

One thing I now know for sure. Never put a picture of your twenty one year old self on your blog when that day was some (cough splutter) years ago. Seems people get a fright. A small new venture has opened up for me, in fact a couple, neither of...